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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: ON SWALLOWING THE CHILDREN

The Common Sense Case

i. A Shot Across the Bow

ii. The Noble Ideal of State-Controlled Education

Compulsory Mass Retardation

Please Do Not Adjust Your Child

Individualism vs. Individuality

The Standards Trap

i. Standards vs. Standardization

ii. From Spiritual Development to Social Utility

iii. Soft Despotism from A to D

A Summary of Our Shame

PART TWO: FROM FREE WILL TO FREE LOVE

Meet the Real Father of Modern Education

i. Prussophilia

ii. Such Oppressive Fetters

iii. Epilogue: Sleepwalking Through Fichte’s Dream

The Rise and Fall of the Didaskalocracy

i. The Teachers

ii. The Will to Power vs. The Will to Truth

Soft Fichteanism

i. Stalin’s Propagandist, The World’s Teacher

ii. Universal Kindergarten

iii. Pragmatic Totalitarianism

Eros and Education

i. Two Motives of Education

ii. The Self and the Soul

iii. The Desire to Know

PART THREE: ENDING THE REIGN OF CRONUS

Swallow Your Pride, Save Your Child

Facing the Hardest Truth

Winning the Long War

Time for Bitter Business

Replies to Objections

Conclusion